After a quick presentation of the philosophy behind the Spring of Code and the projects, this time we decided to get everyone to buddy up on bug-fixing. It was a great way to enable people to work together and get the Spring of Code site up and running.

This site, based on Java and built via the Open Source Liferay CMS was the focus of the evening exercise. You'll find on the bug-swatting page the list of bugs which we work on and still need to be looked at (and fixed!).

Hacking

CSS

2 members specially worked on the CSS, Santosh giving great tips to Takako on how to customize themes in the Liferay.

Geo-Locate

One group looked at and tried to configure the LR Geo-Locate community portlet which puts all members on a map based on their IP addresses, which is a great way to build a community by seeing who's around you and get coders to work online and offline.

Mailing list

Phil, who is a regular Liferay user showed to other developpers the issue he has with using the forum as a mailing list. It is key to the Spring of Code project to get this working as it will allow all members to be kept in loop and to be able to follow the latest activity on the site.